Quotes About Church

Las decisiones que tomamos hoy tendrán consecuencias en las vidas de nuestros descendientes, nación y civilización. Jesucristo prometió que el poder del infierno no derrotaría a su Iglesia, pero no dijo que no vencería a la Iglesia en Occidente. Depende de nosotros y de las decisiones que tomemos aquí y ahora.

Legend has it that in an argument with a cardinal, Napoleon pointed out that he had the power to destroy the church. "Your majesty," the cardinal replied, "we, the clergy, have done our best to destroy the church for the last eighteen hundred years. We have not succeeded, and neither will you.

Nuestra situación es alarmante, es verdad, pero no nos podemos permitir el lujo de tirarnos de los pelos. Esta crisis esconde una bendición, solo tenemos que abrir bien los ojos. En el Antiguo Testamento, Dios se valía del castigo para pedir a su pueblo que volviera a Él, así que no es de extrañar que esté dando un toque de atención similar a una Iglesia y un pueblo cargados de egoísmo, hedonismo y materialismo que le han dado la espalda.

A church that looks and talks and sounds just like the world has no reason to exist. A church that does not emphasize asceticism and discipleship is as pointless as a football coaching staff that doesn't care if its players show up for practice. And though liturgy by itself is not enough, a church that neglects to involve the body in worship is going to find it increasingly difficult to get bodies into services on Sunday morning as America moves further into post-Christianity.

When their souls are rightly ordered, believers serve not only the good of the church, but are a means of God's blessing to all people.

The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.

Slavery ended in medieval Europe only because the church extended its sacraments to all slaves and then managed to impose a ban on the enslavement of Christians (and of Jews). Within the context of medieval Europe, that prohibition was effectively a rule of universal abolition.

light of the two centuries of church statistics we have examined, it is obvious that a group can add members and still fail to keep pace with the growth of the population and of other religious firms.

light of the two centuries of church statistics we have examined, it is obvious that a group can add members and still fail to keep pace with the growth of the population and of other religious firms. The mainline denominations do not qualify as rockets that suddenly ran out of fuel in the sixties-their market shares were falling in the forties and fifties too, and throughout the century

the decreasing demands in other areas were as important, and probably more so, for reducing the commitment of Catholics. As lannaccone (1994, p. 1204) has commented, the Catholic church "managed to arrive at a remarkable, 'worst of both worlds' position-discarding cherished distinctiveness in the areas of liturgy, theology, and life-style, while at the same time maintaining the very demands that its members and clergy are least willing to accept.

a majority of American Catholics now agree that one can marry outside the church and still remain a "good Catholic

Thus we see the Methodists as they were transformed from sect to church. Their clergy were increasingly willing to condone the pleasures of this world and to deemphasize sin, hellfire, and damnation; this lenience struck highly responsive chords in an increasingly affluent, influential, and privileged membership.

A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive.

St. Paul did not baptize uninstructed converts apart from a system of mutual responsibility which ensured their instruction.

In little more than ten years St. Paul established the Church in .four provinces of the Empire, Galatia, Macedonia, Achaia and Asia.

If the Church is to be indigenous it must spring up in the soil from the very first seeds planted.

We should cease to talk of a native church as something to be attained after long years, or generations of probation. There would be native Churches at once which all men would recognize as native.

Now, at a point when the entire world seems mired in violence and cynicism, when the Church is shrinking, the environment being poisoned, when good souls are giving up hope, when greed and bitterness seem to be gaining at the expense of kindness and compassion - now, I believe, we have been given a divine help.

And did not Spinoza's refusing to flee from excommunication by his church and community mean the same inner battle of integrity, the same struggle for the power not to be afraid of aloneness, without which the noble Ethics, certainly one of the great works of all time, could not have been written?

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James, one of the leaders of the Early Church, tells us to ask for healing: "Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well" (Jas. 5:14-15). It is always right for us to pray for healing. Jesus healed, the apostles healed, and God still heals today.

Education isn't about teaching people what to think, which is how we have spent a lot of church time, but to help them learn how to think and respond appropriately in real time in continuity with the script-ure.

Ultimately Satan wants nothing more than to hinder God's work on Earth through the church. Obviously, the enemy will throw up every roadblock he can to stop believers from pursuing the will of God. The apostle Paul faced these roadblocks, as he explained in one of his letters:

If pacifism is not God's will for all Christians, then it is not His will any. On the other hand, if the one who taught us to love our enemies is the eternal Son who became flesh in the carpenter who died and rose and now reigns as Lord of the universe, then the peaceful way of nonviolence is for all who believe and obey him. Do we have the courage to summon the entire church to forsake the way of violence?